Tag Archives: North Carolina

Tea Anyone?

Posted on April 5, 2010 | 2 comments

The test is coming.  The energy and excitement that is and has been caused by, the Tea Party movement is gonna be tested in the coming months.  It’s one thing for a group of folks to get mad and meet in the park.  It’s another thing entirely for that group of people identify a leader, for that leader to be qualified, and move the group from loosely connected to organized force.

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Posted in Diplomacy, Liberty, Lobby/PAC, Politics: North Carolina

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Dubious Praise

Posted on April 1, 2010 | Leave a comment

This week the vaunted magazine, “The Economist” featured an article on the schools here in Wake County:

…In 2000 Wake County’s school board decided to integrate its schools by income level rather than race. No more than 40% of students at any one school should be receiving free or subsidised lunches (which are given to children from poor families). Evidence dating back more than 40 years shows that schools with too great a concentration of poor pupils are undesirable. Teachers do not stay, and poor pupils tend to perform worse when they are put with others who are poor.

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…on March 23rd the board voted 5-4 to abandon that policy.

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Market Forces at Work

Posted on March 17, 2010 | Leave a comment

This is what happens when the medical care industry is exposed to the free market.

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From Sea to Shining Sea

Posted on March 16, 2010 | Leave a comment

It started in Virginia and moved to New Jersey.  After that, the momentum swept to Massechusetts [heh heh – dumb bitch misspelled her own state!].  But beyond that, the writing has been on the wall for some time now:

“We didn’t like the Republicans but this, THIS, is NOT what we had in mind!

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You Can Tell A Lot About a Person

Posted on February 16, 2010 | 1 comment

When faced with adversity.

This sums up EXACTLY what I feel about Liberals.  Hat tip Cuatro Pachyderms

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Unemployment?

Posted on February 15, 2010 | Leave a comment

I call BS. Clear case of marginal value.

-p

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Feature Not Bug

Posted on February 15, 2010 | Leave a comment

A long time ago [longer than I like] I turned 10.  My folks performed the usual; presents, cake and a party.  My friends came over, maybe spent the night, fun was had and Normal America ruled the day.  But there was something else that occurred on that birthday.  See, when I turned 10 that year, I was given something that I am still enjoying today; a job!

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Common Sense Approach

Posted on February 11, 2010 | Leave a comment

When you tune out the noise from the right and left, often what you find is a relatively common sense approach to just about everything.

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Red or Blue

Posted on February 8, 2010 | Leave a comment

I am pretty much disgusted with all politics.  And all people in ’em.  Perhaps most especially vile are the Parties.  It seems that in order to satisfy the party, each candidate has to run for the edges, the FAR edges.  They have to do this to get the support, connections and money from the apparatus.  In short, people are rather forced to do and say things they might not otherwise.

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Posted in Liberty, Politics: National, Politics: North Carolina

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We'll Need Less Even as We Make More

Posted on February 5, 2010 | Leave a comment

You’ve heard it.  I’ve heard.  How could you NOT hear it?

We are gonna run out of oil!

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Posted in Economics, Energy, Politics: International

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